The week that was
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This document appears to be a quiz with 10 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of recent news events from around the world. The questions cover topics like the Commonwealth Games, a South American country legalizing child labor, a cricket match between India and England, actors in the movie Hercules, an Olympic diver turned actor, a European country adopting the euro, a typhoon in Asia, an Ebola outbreak in Africa, the winner of the 2014 German Grand Prix, and insurance companies covering recent airline incidents.
The week that was
- 1. Arko Biswas Mechanical Third year The week that was!
- 2. Rules: • 1: +10 for direct • 2: +20/-10 on pounce
- 3. Q1. Easy • I bagged the 1 st gold medal for India in the ongoing commonwealth game. Who am I? • Complete name please
- 4. ANS • Sanjita Khumukcham (weight lifting)
- 5. Q2. • Which country became the first nation to legalise child labour from the age of 10 this week? HINT: south American nation
- 7. Q3 • India’s test victory at lord’s this year has startling parallels with the 1986 version. • Mumbai batsmen Rahane scored hundred this time, who scored then? • Who was the counterpart of Alastair cook then? Half point available
- 8. Ans • Dilip Vensarkar • David gower
- 9. Q4 • Who plays the role of Megara,1 st wife of the Hercules in the Dwayne jhonson starrer Hercules? • Hint: You all know her!
- 11. Q5. easy again • He represented England in diving event of commonwealth games 1990 • Finishing 8 th • In 1998 he made a new start with the movie Lock , stock and two smoking barrels.
- 13. Q6 • Which nation was recently given green light by European union to adopt euro as it’s currency and become the 19 th member?
- 14. Ans • Lithuania
- 15. Q7 • What has been blacked out? It is named after the Siamese word for thunder god
- 17. Q8 • An ongoing epidemic of ________ virus disease has spread throughout the western part of Africa leading to 661 reported deaths . Recently spread to continent’s most populous nation Nigeria,4 th of the list . Which virus or disease is being talked about?
- 18. Ans • Ebola
- 19. Q9 • Who won the German GP of 2014? Name the track.
- 21. Q10 • CONNECT
- 22. Ans • Insurance companies of the crashed airlines • Lloyd’s of London-Malaysian airlines(Ukraine incident) • AIG-Turkish airways (Algeria incident) • Cathy- Transasia( Tunisia incident)